While I’m not an attorney… I’m pretty sure that a parent cannot enter into a contract that will bind their child after their 18th birthday. And a child cannot sign a contact in the first place. I don’t think Range Resources has any ground to enforce the gag order on the children.

There are circumstances where they can. I’m not going to get into them here, because they’re not germane to the conversation, but I agree with you that in most cases parents lose their guardianship rights when the child hits 18.

You own 40% of a corporation? That’s a pretty substantial holding, even in a “small” corporation. But yes, by the time you are at 40%, you’re no longer working for robot overlords…you ARE a robot overlord. Congratulations!

Well then color me a sociopath. I certainly didn’t bust my @$$ and risk my house by taking a second mortgage for seed money for fun or charity. I’m proud to say I did it for the profit and no other reason. Of course as a robot overlord I think the real sociopaths are the ones condemning profit considering profit is how money is made, ie wealth is created and why we don’t live in the stone age.

The problem is that a corporation has the rights of a person but not the responsibilities. For example, a corporation has the same Constitutional guarantee of free speech as a flesh-and-blood human being, but a corporation which breaks the law cannot be sent to prison for its crimes.

A corporation may be a “person” in a certain legal sense, but as a corporation is generally obligated to maximize profits for its shareholders without considering the ethical implications of its actions it’s not a stretch to say that “person” has the personality of a sociopath. This is not the same as claiming that the individual people of which a corporation is comprised are sociopaths.

A corporation is an association of individuals and when one or some of them break the law they certainly do go to jail. It would not make any sense to send every employee or even every owner to jail for the actions of some owners or employees.

And yes the goal of a corporation is to make money for the shareholders but any CEO that does this without regard to ethical implications is not a very good CEO and usually doesn’t do a very good job at the profit part either.